What's the opposite of a placebo?

[TequilaClock]

Ever happened to you that, I dunno, you drink/eat something and then someone tells you stuff like "dude I think this was poisoned" and then you begin to feel intoxicated, with a bad taste and even ill but then its like "oh wait no, it was clean, nevermind"

Does that have a terminology in specific?

[Marlin Clock]

It's still a placebo effect, even if it's a negative one.

[WiiClock]

Opposite of placebo would be something you take and works.

[Pissed-on Clock]

an obecalp

[HeinekenClock]

Opposite of placebo would be something you take and works.

Without knowing, yes.

[TequilaClock]

It's still a placebo effect, even if it's a negative one.

But I thought the word "placebo" was referred to "pleasure" as well.

[HeinekenClock]

But I thought the word "placebo" was referred to "pleasure" as well.

Never heard of that, but I think a placebo works both ways.

[TequilaClock]

Never heard of that, but I think a placebo works both ways.

placebo -> placer -> pleasure. dunno, just speculating.

[Pissed-on Clock]

Placebo is a substance or procedure a patient accepts as medicine or therapy, but which has no specific therapeutic activity. Any therapeutic effect is thought to be based on the power of suggestion.

[HeinekenClock]

According to wikipedia it's pretty vague:

The word placebo is Latin for I will please. It is in Latin text in the Bible (Psalm 114:1–9, Vulgate version), from where it became familiar to the public via the Office of the Dead church service. From that, a singer of placebo became associated with someone who falsely claimed a connection to the deceased to get a share of the funeral meal, and hence a flatterer.

[Pissed-on Clock]

I guess the opposite of a placebo would be something that is meant to work (a real medicine) , but because the patient didn't think it would work, it doesn't.

[Slash]

Ever happened to you that, I dunno, you drink/eat something and then someone tells you dingen like "dude I think this was poisoned" and then you begin to feel intoxicated, with a bad taste and even ill but then its like "oh wait no, it was clean, nevermind"

Does that have a terminology in specific?

That pretty much describes hypochondria if you ask me

[Marlin Clock]

But I thought the word "placebo" was referred to "pleasure" as well.

The placebo itself, but the placebo effect describes the event of mentally manifesting something because you believe that's what's happening. Like a cure or a kill.

[peyoteclock]

psychosomatia

[Thor]

Marlin is right, it's still the placebo effect.

Although a better answer is hypochondria.

[DWARFINATORclock]

Marlin is right, it's still the placebo effect.

Although a better answer is hypochondria.

No that's not a better answer at all. The opposite of a placebo is simply something that actually works.

And as said before, placebo can have good and bad effects.